Grindstone (tool)

As a scissors-grinder is referred to as the force exerted Reisegewerbe repair work to sharpen dull knives, scissors and other cutting tools. Scissors-grinder is considered old profession exerted today by Jenischen of traveling people. Other population groups consider this trade in a degrading manner: for example, exists to this day in parts of Germany, the dirty word " scissors-grinder ," which describes a scamp. With its standard device (see Wetzstein ) drew the knife-grinder over land and through the cities, where he re- anschärfte scissors, knives, daggers, etc. of the household. The name stems from its task ago, a pair of scissor blades to grind to fit.

The principle of grinding is always the same: The cutting edge, for example, the scissors is moved longitudinally over an even harder surface and the resulting heat may need to be removed. The simplest device to view in ethnographic museums yet, is a mobile, elongated and open water tank into which the round stone towers half in from the top. This is umgekurbelt with the foot or the left, while the right leads the Schärfgut.

Knife-grinders are always less common because nowadays few people need their services. Due to modern mass production knives and scissors have become so cheap that many simply access to a new tool, instead of keeping the old in good condition.

Occasionally, the scissors grinder to attract audiences, a trained monkey had it. ( Therefore, even the biker saying: He sits there wie'n Monkey Flash installed grindstone - the animal was sitting ' on the rotating stone of course, never, but hopped permanently connected to the rear part up and down. )

In the Grimm 's Fairy Tales Hans im Glück is the knife-grinder of the very last and poorest exchange partners of the Hans, and he also cheated him.

The congeneric craft training occupation does cutting tool mechanic, specializing in " slicers and knife forging technology ". The Chrirugiemechaniker sets forth scissors for medicinal purposes and sharpens them also.

A ( slippery ) folk song that reflects the topic and still given in Southern Germany at ceremonies or to some later hour in the Tavern of will, ie grinders Paris.

The Knife Sharpener, by Carl Maria Seyppel, before 1913

Scissor and knife sharpener 1981 in Bukhara

Contemporary scissors grinder, Rome 2011

Grindstone (tool)

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